Artensis 60 are quickly becoming one of the Clone's best customers. Fresh from orders for HCS warplanes last month the planet has placed phase 2 of a massive order with the Clones which includes a total recapitisation of it's army.
The first part of the order however is for 60 T-1MA60 advanced trainers. Basic training will be carried out by the HCSAF for now but final/advanced/weapons training will be done by Artensis themselves with Clone help.
Artensis is ordering a huge amount of armour and it will totally replace their existing ageing mix of land weapons. 375 T-55ZDMA60 tanks, 910 TRV-5HDA60 IFVs and 105 ATC-107GA60 self-propelled guns will be bought plus an unspecified number of support vehicles and unarmoured utility vehicles. The total value of the order is said to be around 3.3 billion zarks of which 0.7 billion will go to the Dinos as part of their licence fee for their funded designs. The tank and IFV order replaces a previous order which had yet to be finalised.
Worryingly for the DDS Artensis has also requested details of a mooted export version of the HCS Type J oiler. They have Isometric-E, Pentekonter-E and Extender-Es on order but face a long delay because of the war situation and are known to be fairly keen on getting the oilers as soon as possible.
